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...London, the Gentleman's Magazine harrumphed: "We ought as justly to regret the decease of the Devil." A far different post-mortem came from Lord Byron, who called Shelley "the best and the least selfish man I ever knew. I never knew one who was not a beast in comparison...
...Sharks are condemned by nature to a life without sleep or even rest. The reason is that they lack the swim bladders of the bony fishes, which permit the latter to float when they need to. A shark must literally swim or sink. If you wanted to anthropomorphize the beast, you could account for its wretched disposition by that fact alone...
...procedure is more like something out of "Let's Make a Deal" than a medieval court of justice. In any case, the plot centers around the dilemma of Princess Barbara (Colleen McMahon), who falls in love with a soldier and must decide whether to give him to the beast or to another woman. The Snake supplies her with the information with which she can save or kill her lover. In one of the sultrier moments of the evening, Barbara sings "I've Got What You Want," and asks the musical question, "Better dead than wed?" The skit ends without ever...
...think why!" he complains in a solo that Gilbert wrote as a jocular self-description. (Gilbert positively reveled in his reputation as an ogre. Around a scowling self-portrait, he once wrote. "I loathe everybody--I love to bully--Everybody is an Ass--I am an overbearing beast--I hate my fellow man--confound everything--I like pinching little babies--I am an ill-tempered pig and I glory in it--W.S. Gilbert...
...that the eponymous poet, F.X. Enderby, was a fairly unprepossessing fellow. But due to a surfeit of British cooking and intractable intestines, he frequently emitted noxious sounds from both ends. He lived, moreover, in animal squalor, reclusively scribbling in the bathroom and tossing sections of his poem The Pet Beast into his otherwise unused bathtub...